Carl von Oldershausen

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Carl Franz Ludwig Georg Claus Friedrich Freiherr von Oldershausen (born January 26, 1816 in Oldenstadt ; † December 12, 1884 in Halle ) was a German baron and mayor of Erfurt from 1851 to 1871 .

Life

family

Gebesee Castle around 1860, collection by Alexander Duncker

He came from the old Lower Saxon noble family von Oldershausen , who had extensive property in the vicinity of their ancestral home in Oldershausen , which is now part of the municipality of Kalefeld . Since 1733 at the latest, she also owned a manor in Gebesee, which Carl's great-grandfather, the Hanoverian Hereditary Marshal Burchard Anton Friedrich Freiherr von Oldershausen , had furnished with a representative new baroque palace in 1740 .

Carl grew up as the eldest son with his younger brother and two sisters in Oldenstadt near Uelzen. His father, Burchard Detlef Carl Friedrich von Oldershausen, had studied in Göttingen in 1787 and was captain of Oldenstadt from 1812 until his untimely death on December 11, 1824 . Carl's mother was Baroness Sophie, b. Dame of speeches .

On April 23, 1824, Carl was raised to the hereditary Prussian baron status. After school he served in the military and was most recently a "lieutenant" .

On November 11, 1842, Carl married 24-year-old Isabella Magdalene (Madeline) Wessel from Bremen in Bassum , County Hoya . In 1845, together with six other family members entitled to succession, he signed a contract to take over the estate with the castle with the childless heir of Gebesee, his uncle Hans Georg Friedrich August von Oldershausen. As early as 1846, Carl lived with his wife on Gebesee, where the family had a son on May 3rd and named Jobst. Apparently, however, he did not succeed in paying off the relationship, because on February 5, 1850, exactly two months before Hans Georg's death, the Successionsgemeinschaft sold the property to the Duke of Brunswick Privy Chamber Council, Baron Adolph Eduard von den Brincken for 182,000 Reichsthaler.

Lord Mayor in Erfurt

In 1851, von Oldershausen was elected Lord Mayor of Erfurt . He succeeded the later center politician Hermann von Mallinckrodt , who had only provisionally led the city administration from April 1850 to June 1851 as “First Mayor” . Of all Erfurt Lord Mayors, von Oldershausen had the longest term of office at 20 years of age and was also a member of the Prussian mansion from 1854 to 1871 . Under him, the infrastructure in Erfurt was improved, the first industry developed and the population of the city grew from around 33,000 to almost 43,000 people.

The railway was the main source of an economic upturn. As early as 1847, the city was connected to the network of the Thuringian Railway Company , which was based in Erfurt. In 1852 the reception building with the main administration was completed. From 1865 a new freight yard was built at Schmidtstedter Tor. In 1867 the railway network was expanded to include a line to Arnstadt. In 1869 the route to Nordhausen followed. In 1857, Erfurt's first gas works went into operation.

The leading branch of industry in Erfurt initially remained handicrafts, especially in the processing and export of agricultural products from the fertile surrounding area. Important companies in the field of horticulture, plant breeding and seed export were the horticultural company Ernst Benary , founded in 1843, and the company NL Chriesteren, founded in 1867 . In 1864, Johann Georg Wolff founded the Erfurt Malzwerke to process the grain . In 1857, the Christian Hagans machine factory was founded in metal processing . In 1862 the Royal Prussian Rifle Factory in Erfurt on Mainzerhofplatz was completed and production started after three years of construction. In 1866 the company was the largest factory in the city with 420 employees.

The new town hall, Heinrich Kruspe 1879

In 1863 von Oldershausen participated in the founding of the society for the history and antiquity of Erfurt and was elected to the board. In September 1865 he was able to open the " 1st International Agriculture and Horticulture Exhibition " in the city garden. In connection with the 2nd Congress of German Gardeners, Botanists and Gardening Friends, it attracted around 30,000 visitors and almost 400 exhibitors from all over the world to Erfurt. In 1867 the privately financed construction of a city ​​theater in nearby Hirschbrühl, which was run by a “ concert and theater association ” and offered space for over 1,000 spectators, took place.

The work of the city administration was made more difficult by the fact that it was spread over several public buildings in the city area. August Wilhelm Türk , one of Oldershausen's predecessors, had already had large parts of the historic town hall demolished in 1830 in favor of a new building project and thus lost his office. Several plans by well-known architects such as Karl Friedrich Schinkel (from 1834) and August Soller (from 1844 ff) were available for the reconstruction of the town hall , but the city councils could not agree on the architecture or the financing. In 1864 the Berlin architect Friedrich August Stüler finally presented a draft in neo-Gothic style, which was further worked on by the new Erfurt city planning officer August Tiede and finally - despite protests from the citizens against the demolition of the still preserved medieval building structure, including the town hall tower - found a majority. The construction costs, which were still too high, meant that Tiede resigned in 1867, but in the same year von Oldershausen found a new city planning officer in the form of the architect Theodor Sommer . Sommer revised the construction plans so that a third of the costs estimated by Tiede could be saved. On January 6, 1870, von Oldershausen laid the foundation stone for the building, which was completed in 1875 and is still used as the town hall today.

Chamber director in Stolberg

After 1871, von Oldershausen became chamber director for the Count of Stolberg-Stolberg . As such, he was confirmed as a Prussian baron on November 27, 1882 in Berlin . He died on December 12, 1884 in Halle an der Saale.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare authority data set GND 1035108925 of the German National Library
  2. ↑ www.myheritage.de on Carl von Oldershausen
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, p. 13 f., CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1999
  4. ↑ www.gedbas.net on Carl von Oldershausen
  5. ↑ von Hagke 1867, p. 113
  6. ↑ Raßloff 2013, p. 18
  7. ↑ Gutsche 1989, p. 297
  8. ↑ Petersen 2012, p. 218
personal data
SURNAME Oldershausen, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oldershausen, Carl Franz Ludwig Georg Claus Friedrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baron, Lord Mayor of Erfurt
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1884
Place of death Hall